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Lead AI Solutions Architect (Lead AI Engineer)

SchoolsFirst FCUData & Analytics
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$129.9K–$214.3K
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United States
Work type
Hybrid
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We’re always looking for diverse, talented, service-oriented people to join our exceptional team.

Lead AI Solutions Architect (Lead AI Engineer)

The pay range for this position is listed below. Our pay ranges are built to allow for candidates with various levels of skill and experience to be considered, as well as for room for growth and tenure achieved in a role over time. Typical new hire salary offers fall within the minimum to midpoint of a pay range for many candidates. Any offer extended to a candidate will be based upon their unique set of knowledge, skills, education, and experience as well as internal equity.

Pay Range:

$129,880.00 - $214,303.00

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

What You’ll Be Doing
Leads the design, delivery and continuous improvement of complex AI, automation and agentic solutions by establishing technical standards, driving enterprise integrations, guiding implementation through production deployment and mentoring teams to advance engineering quality, scalability and business value.
  • Leads the design, development, integration, testing, deployment and operation of complex AI-enabled workflows and solutions, agents and shared platform capabilities.
  • Owns technical delivery for AI and automation initiatives from proof of concept through production deployment and ongoing support.
  • Creates reusable reference implementations, components and engineering patterns for knowledge assistants, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, agents, tool and API integrations, human-in-the-loop controls and citizen developer capabilities.
  • Defines the role of stand-alone and embedded RPA workflows and AI agents within the enterprise architecture and guides engineers in designing secure, scalable and maintainable solutions.
  • Leads integrations across enterprise applications, data services, APIs and approved AI and orchestration platforms.
  • Establishes and enhances engineering practices for version control, CI/CD, evaluation frameworks, regression testing and release management across AI, agent and workflow solutions.
  • Defines and validates nonfunctional requirements, including reliability, scalability, performance, observability, auditability and supportability.
  • Implements approved data access, identity, least-privilege and governance controls in partnership with Architecture, Information Security and Data teams.
  • Leads technical design, code, testing and production-readiness reviews, resolving complex implementation issues and providing escalation support.
  • Establishes monitoring, logging, alerting, operational dashboards, runbooks and incident response procedures to improve platform performance, resiliency and supportability.
  • Evaluates AI, automation and agentic technologies through technical proofs of value and provides recommendations on platform, vendor and solution approaches. Provide thought leadership regarding emerging AI, automation and digital transformation technologies.
  • Mentors engineers, coordinates delivery across teams and promotes reusable engineering practices that improve solution quality, consistency and delivery effectiveness.

Additional Job Functions
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Complies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements including but not limited to BSA regulations corresponding to their specific job duties. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary and other employment related actions.

Qualifications
  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent years of experience required
  • 7-10 years of prior relevant experience required
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103) preferred
  • Microsoft Certified: Machine Learning Operations Engineer Associate (AI-300) preferred
  • Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate (AB-620) preferred
  • AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following areas: traditional artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), generative AI and agentic AI, including hands on solution design, implementation and production deployment.
  • Advanced knowledge of enterprise solution architecture, cloud platforms, systems integration and distributed application design.
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing API-driven, event-driven and AI-enabled solutions that support enterprise scalability, security and operational effectiveness.
  • Advanced knowledge of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, intelligent automation and robotic process automation (RPA) platforms, orchestration platforms and low-code development technologies.
  • Strong knowledge of identity and access management, security architecture, data governance, privacy requirements and zero-trust principles.
  • Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, integration patterns, observability frameworks and operational support considerations.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate technologies, vendors and architectural approaches and provide recommendations that align business needs with enterprise standards.
  • Ability to establish technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns and governance practices that promote consistency, scalability and maintainability.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional solution design efforts, influence technical decisions and communicate complex architectural concepts and tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.

SchoolsFirst FCU is committed to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Hiring

At SchoolsFirst FCU we are dedicated to building and growing a diverse, inclusive, and authentic Dream Team, so if you’re excited about a position or wanting to make a career change but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Many skills are transferrable and you may be just the right candidate for the position, or for other roles we are working on.

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. SchoolsFirst FCU is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or genetic information.

This organization participates in E-Verify.

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We're passionate about living our mission of providing Members with World-Class Personal Service and financial security.

A Career With a Purpose.

There's a reason we love coming to work every day. We have the privilege of serving those who build the future: school employees, and the families who make their work possible.

Workplace Flexibility

Our success is built on our relationships with each other, our Members and the community. We value teamwork and face-to-face interactions and believe we’re at our best when we’re collaborating in-person.

We offer three possible work locations:

We also know the flexibility to work remotely benefits the wellbeing of our team. View the work location information below on the job listing that interests you.

On-Site:

100% on-site, 0% remote. Including those serving Members in-person at our branches.

Hybrid:

Three days a week in the office and up to two days remote. Hybrid teams coordinate on-site days to collaborate in-person.

Remote:

Up to 100% remote. Select individual contributor roles may be given the option to work fully remote.

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